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We say goodbye to Samai, talk about the february elections a little bit, Cambodia war talk. This show will start getting good again next week. Promise.

Ghosts of the Red Soil - The Book is out, sold out actually. But there will be a new print run in January with Leftword books & there might still be some on bookshop shelves in Kuala Lumpur. To mark this special occation we've done a one time pivot to video. It took way too much work. Please don't get used to it.

"This book is a collection of stories, research and conversations gathered over the past decade in Thailand and its border regions. It is about those who are made to work, the small tragedies of that working class and how those tragedies define the collective memory. It charts the ongoing rise and fall of social movements and the generational failures to break out. "

p.s, if you really really want to make sure you get a copy, email [email protected] and demand it immidiately.

We're taking a break until new years sorry. So we answered YOUR questions.

Imagine one of those thumbnails of a DPRK defector with the clickbait headline like: NORTH Korean DEFECTOR tells the TRUTH about REGIME.

Well we're doing this but for the south, with our friend - a former Psyops Officer in the ROK Military (not kidding) - Kim.

We dive deeper into exploring the cosmology of the cursed Romanian mind. Manele, Chalga, Skiladiko, Serbian Turbo-Folk. Whatever you want to call it. When Roma people try and have fun, just how racist will the Romanians get?

Sorry we couldn't come up with a better title... or a better episode.

The title should really explain it all no?

Malaysia is really the most wildly racist... racialised... messy place maybe in the world. That's what we talked about

Here's yvonnes article

https://www.whiteboardjournal.com/column/indonesian-and-malaysian-men-have-one-thing-that-is-shared-and-its-not-pretty/

The New Villages in Malaysia, Strategic Hamlets in Vietnam, the Asian suburban sprawl. There is a direct line, that we will trace.

Sorry I dont know how to put pictures we talked about in the episode description.

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The original plan backfired, we had to abandon it mid episode so its almost entirely chit chat today. Sorry !!!

We did get around to talking about our media diets, indian facebook groups, christian zionists, the Thai mental health system, genocidal Buddhism and probably some other stuff